The Hospital Worker Hit Record… Then This Happened

You know that feeling when you walk into a hospital and there's this underlying sense of safety? Like no matter what's wrong, these are the people who fix things, who save lives, who take an oath to do no harm? For the families of seven women in Brisbane, Australia, that sense of safety became the cruelest illusion imaginable. Brisbane General Hospital sat in the heart of Queensland's capital, a sprawling complex of buildings that had served the community for over eighty years. By 2014, parts of the old infrastructure had been abandoned—wings closed down as newer, modern facilities opened elsewhere on the campus. The psychiatric unit, decommissioned in 2009, stood empty. Or at least, everyone thought it was empty.